Organizational barriers to adapting infrastructure assets to climate change: Evidence from coastal councils in Australia

Public Money and Management

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-160

  Sciulli, Nick ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation (CCA); infrastructure; local government; organizational barriers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873859505     PISSN: 09540962     EISSN: 14679302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2013.763436     Document Type: Article

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